"childish three year old's logic"
Your question includes the false premise that consorting with dictators is beneficial to the USA. I have been patiently challenging that assertion, while you have persisted in evasiveness. I'm not interested in answering a question that imposes an unfounded, false pre-condition on the answerer. Ask a straight question and I will answer:
"what would the world look like if we hadn't [propped up dictators]?"
There would have been millions fewer victims of brutal dictatorships. The United States would be far more respected throughout the world. There would be significantly less provocation for terrorism against the USA. There would be more international cooperation and respect for our legitimate initiatives. As a result the United States would enjoy much greater security, both physically and economically.
"You are Monday morning quarterbacking, and not addressing the Point of the Thread, the Best Interest of Your Country"
Not true. Then, now, and in future, dictatorship is incompatible with democracy. Remembering our ideals of government of, by and for the people, and protecting that foundation with public criticism and popular reform is most definitely in the best interests of the USA.
"there are many examples of countries that no longer exist because they failed to operate in accordance with this principle of Geo-Politics...do what was in the best interest of their country... Iraq, Germany, Imperial Japan, Manchuco, Imperial Rome, Carthage... "
You're hiding again- using a sweeping generalization in a diversionary response to the context of my request for substantiation of your claim. Instead of examples of countries that no longer exist because they would not support dictatorship, you have given a much more general example group of fallen governments. Instead of confronting the incompatibility of democracy with dictatorship in an integrating world, you are offering multiple distracting repetitions of an entirely separate premise, so self-evident that there can be no argument.
Yes, nations must look out for their own best interests. We can obviously agree on that generality. But you declare the promotion of dictatorship as part of the USA's self interest. I challenge that assumption because I know it to be false: Promoting dictatorship corrupts our ideals of democracy, our reputation, our authority, and our security.
US support for dictatorships has caused us great harm. I have provided examples, and offered to examine those examples with you in detail. For too many posts, you've only been running and hiding from an open challenge to the lie you have been repeating here, that anything goes, and that American support for dictatorship is a beneficial thing. In fact, you've been hiding from my challenge since post # 11 in this thread:
Buffalo Roam: "at certain time in our countries history the U.S. has supported dictators of unsavory character... when it has served the best interest of that country"
hypewaders: Most often it has not. The cumulative and long-term effects of US collaboration with dictators have been overwhelmingly negative, and certainly not in US national interests.
This has gone on long enough. Either summon the courage to come out of the scraggly argumentative bushes you're hiding in, or drop it.
